Raid on the Gilded Star

In 3630 BBY, the Alliance that opposed the Eternal Empire of Zakuul teamed up with con artist Gault Rennow to raid the Gilded Star treasury ship, which kept the valuables accumulated by Zakuul from pillaging the worlds of the known galaxy. The Alliance leadership traveled with Gault to the Gas giant Vandin where the Gilded Star was hiding, where the Alliance Commander helped Gault recruit the Anomid identity slicer Dretcher, who provided a holographic disguise for Senya Tirall to get onto the ship's bridge with SCORPIO at her side. From there, SCORPIO opened the way to the ship's vault for Gault and the Alliance Commander, while Gault's partner Vette disabled the vault's security mechanisms. Gault planted a missile warhead inside the vault, which upon detonation vaporized its entire content of precious metals that was then pumped into the tanker piloted by Lana Beniko. Gault, Vette and the Alliance Commander escaped the ship with the help of Hylo Visz everyone returned safely to the Alliance base on Odessen, where Gault and Vette decided to stay and join the Alliance cause.

hiding in the atmosphere of the gas giant Vandin. Strained for funds, the Commander agreed to the plan and accompanied Gault to Vandin along with Lana Beniko, Theron Shan, Senya Tirall and SCORPIO. Bringing in his partner Vette and an identity slicer Dretcher, Gault outlined his plan to infiltrate the ship and sabotage a warhead inside its reinforced vault, vaporizing its contents so that they could be siphoned away from the ship. The heist went mostly as planned, as Lana and Theron piloted the tanker ship and made a safe getaway, while those aboard the Gilded Star itself were picked up by Hylo Visz. Returning to Odessen, Gault and Vette expressed their desire to join the Alliance, but the celebration was interrupted by the return of Aric Jorgan and Kaliyo Djannis, who managed to escape Zakuul with a database on the GEMINI droids, although four of Havoc Squad's six members were lost in the process. Hoping to salvage this fiasco, Beniko ordered SCORPIO to analyze the data archive.

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